The Sun. — London, England, 1864-03-22 00:00:00

r.k7Rl 3 WAR IN DENMARK. (From- it: e Times .3.recial C C orresyondent with. the Allied Army.) BROACHER, March 16. Chan 30 of place and other circumstances have prevents ?.d my writing to you since my letter of the 12th fret n Kohling. On the 14th I reached Graven stein, where Prince Frederick Charles, commanding the army comps which for some time past has been in observation, has his head-quarters. On that day, but before I got to Gravenstein, there had been a little fighting in front, the Prussians being the as sailants, and having for object permanently to ad vance their outposts to within a shorter distance of the Danish entrenchments than they previously had been. After the reconnaissance of the 22d of February, announced by the Danes as a defeat of the Prussians, but which in reality was nothing of the kind, the latter never having intended more than a reconnaissance, and having taken a number of Danish prisoners with very trifling loss to themselves, the Danes were said to have aban • doned the wood known as the Boffel-Koppel, but if they did so they afterwards reoccu pied it. It was thought desirable to drive them into a narrow space round the Duppel entrenchments, and this was accordingly done after a slight skir mish, in which the Prussians return their loss at two officers and 16 men killed and wounded. I yesterday rode over the ground, and on to the advanced posts of the Prussians, now established just beyond the spot where the cross road to Schmoel and Broacher enters the highway from Gravenstein to Senderburg. A few yards in front of this a small lane runsnorth wards, and in this lane, leaning against the bank, an d peering through the leafless hedge at the Danish sentries, who were visible 200 or 300 yards off, stood the most advanced Prussians. The Danes had fired a few shots that morning, but then they were quiet enough, and from what I hear it is not often that the outposts molest each other by the useless prac tice of trying to pick off each other's sentries. On the road were the usual signs of the previous day's fighting; in the houses of the hamlets a few marks of cannon and rifle shots ; by the wayside the remains of barriers made of branches, which had been raised to impede the assailants ; a deep cutting across the way, then filled up ; in one place a couple of Prussian cannon shots had laid a small but as flat as if it had been built of cards. Return ing, I took a lane which led me to a picket shed, built against a bank of sticks and straw. It was raining heavily, and the picket were indoors, but came out at the sound of horses' feet, looking clamp and muddy enough, but not unpicturesque, emerging from their straw nest just on the edge of the Boffel }Copped, which is a small wood on undulating ground. Here, as in other places close upon the line of outpost, passes were demanded, for ramblers in civilian costume are rare in this region, and the Prussians have a great horror of spies, and, especi ally in the country occupied by this army corps, take the utmost precautions against them. Passing through the Boffel-Koppel into deep ploughed fields we came in sight of the double spire of Broacher church, situated on a height, and a caaspicuous object for a long distance around. One of those furious gales so common in this storm-plagued land was blowing at the time, and even when we got into the village and looked down from its church yard wail upon the little arm of the sea known as the Venning-bund, we could not hear the sound of guns fired at the Dappel forte from batteries situated at the north-westernmost point of the north shore of that inlet. The Prussians have got some rifled 24-pounders there, concerning which I shall have more to say in a future letter, and they make capi tal practice at the Danish works. Yesterday was the first day, and I arrived rather late from Gra venstein, and the €re was nearly over; but to-day I came up sooner, and was witness, from a hill be tween this place and the shore, of the destructive effects of the Prussian rifled artillery of various calibres. There were three successive conflagrations all in the neighbourhood of Fort No. 4, which ap peared the most heavily visited by the day's prac tice, One of them was very considerable, judging from the great sheet of flame which for some time 13 visible even in the broad sunlight; for, al though it snowed heavily from 6 until 9 this morn ing., it soon afterwards cleared up, and the after noon was beautiful and almost cloudless, the sky of a far deeper blue than I expected to see in this country at this season, and the water of the Bund, no longer troubled and torn up into short curling waves and clouds of spray by the force of the gale, was of a deep blue-green, crisply rippled, but foamless. The focus of another of the fires was concealed by a rise in the ground, but from it there issued, for some time, huge dense banks of the biackest smoke. By persons who profess to be well acquainted with the neck of land on which the Duppel works are situated, I am 'l.lforr,:-.2d. that there were burnt to day two farms used as quarters for the men em ployed in the fortifications, two barracks, and a storehouse, besides straw-stacks and other smaller matters. The Danes answered the Prussian batte ries for soma time this afternoon, but their fire was completely harmless, for reasons which one would think they ought very soon to discover, either by their own observations or by their spies, but which, in case they should not yet have done 80, may as well not be mentioned here. The fortified position of Duppel will require more minute examination than I have as yet been able to bestow' upon it, before I can attempt anything like a detailed account of it, but it may be described in general terms as a range of hills or of high downs of tolerably steep ascent, on which redoubts have been erected. The number of those redoubts is 10, and they are known by numbers 1 to 10, commenc ing from the south. The earthworks are very heavy and solid, and the Prussians admit that their fire makes little impression upon them. On the other hand, there seems to be no doubt entertained by any who were in the batteries at the time that the 24- pounders sent two shells into the barracks at Son derburg, a distance estimated at fully 21 miles Eng lish (5,600 German paces) ; and it was reported this evening among the military that to-morrow's can nonade would certainly be directed against Son derburg, with the intention of reducing the town to ashes. Judging from the effect of to-day's fire, it does not seem improbable that this anticipation will be fulfilled, but hardly in time for the event to be announced for the present letter, which I fear must be posted before 0 a.m. We are still rather irregular, in this corner of the world, as regards postal communications, and the public telegraph does not extend to this little village, but should anything extraordinary occur I shall endeavour to make yea acquainted with it by the last named means. A number of Danish vessels, as many, it is said, as 26 or 27, including two large steamers, were seen late this afternoon near the Alsen coast, at a very !Safe distance from the Prussian batteries. The Rolf Kralze, if she it be who has been seen this last day or tw o in the same direction, keeps a respectful distance from the 24-pounders, which well she may do, considerin g how rou g hly she lately was handled lighter by much guns. A remarkable feature of the i new Prussia n • artillery, and one to which the officers of that arm attribute no mean share of its excel lence, is the mode of igniting the contents of the shell. This is done by means of a needle, one end o f which projecls from the apex of the conical ball, w hile the other, when the shell strikes, is forced into the powder and ignites the shell. Before the explosion takes place, however, there is time for the shell to enter the object it has struck, and so to cause terr ible havoc. The Prussian rifle is dis charged much is the same way. It is, as you are aware, a breech -loader, and on all s id es , s i nce I h ave been with this army, do I hear the utmost satisfac tion crooressed at its great efficiency. It can fire six or seven shots a minute, which gives the troops that 1120 it an enormous advantage over MUZZI.7:- loading . rifies. The results of its present trial in the field, so far as that . 11:19 gone, are said most com pletely to justify the confidence which has long been expressed in it in Pruoin. Gravenstein is certainly one of the most wretched places in Schleswig, so far at least as my experience goes of Schleswig towns and villages. It lies low, on the margin of a small lake, or large pond, with marshy ground about it. Immediately before you enter it by the road from Apenrade you pass the 6 blase, or chg(ealt, a large ugly white building, which forms three sides of a equare,and where Prince Frederick Charles now has his quarters. The village itself is mean and miserable, and at the pre t time is in a frightful state of filth, crowded w. soldiers in every house, the streets streaming wi mud, the courts and gardens horribly defiled, the inns the worst I have seen in Schleswig (which r- not saying a little), and the Schloss to be reached, at. least on on foot, only by treading a plank laid across a quag mire. To find even the humblest accommodation in the shape of a bed is at the present moment com pletely out of the question, and after passing two nights on straw in a cupboard I resolved to come up here, the more so as Gravenstein, in the present state of affairs, now that operations against Duppel seem to be seriously commencing, is too far from the front. It is fully six miles thence to the outposts which I yesterday visited, and about four and a-half to Broacker by the shortest road, an extremely bad one, across the bridge of boats at Alnoer (over the Eskernsund). My references to the geography of this part of Schleswig will be unintelligible to those of your readers who do not feel sufficient interest in the subject to take a map to assist them in fol lowing it. Of those that I have some are very in correct ; among the better ones may be cited Peter man's Special Map of North Schleswig, lately pub lished at Gotha ; a plan of the Dappel position, just brought out by Schropp, in Berlin (oa a large scale, but meagre and too circumscribed) ; and a special map of Alsen and Sundewitt, published in 1849 by Hoffman and Campe at Hamburg—since which date, however, the Duppel fortifications have been ex tended. Broacker, as will be seen from any one of these maps, is the most desirable point for observa tion of the operations now in progress, especially now that the Prussian batteries are established at half an hour's ride from it, while about the same time takes one round to the outposts on the high road from Gravenstein to Sonderburg. Prince Frederick Charles is probably also of that opi nion, if it be true, as was reported this evening, that he is about to move his quarters from the swampy hole where they are now established to this breezy little place—rather too breezy to be pleasant when the wind blows high, but clean and bearing some slight resemblance to an English village of the some class. Marshal Wrangel's headquarters are also expected to come down south from holding, but perhaps they will be fixed at Flensburg—cer tainly a more desirable place than Gravenstein. According to the account given by staff officers at the latter place, the Danes are at this time very numerous in Duppel and its vicinity—mere so, it is said, than the Prussians outside. If this be the case, I apprehend that nearly the whole Danish army must be in Duppel and Alsen, which may be the case, although it is unlikely that Fredericia would be lett without a strong garrison at the present time, and it is also reported that a great deal of the Danish cavalry is still in ;utland—far north, we must suppose, if there at all—retreating before the advancing Austrian columns. The Prussians troops of this division look, as one meets them moving about the country, active and service-like. On a parade, or massed in large bodies, I have not yet had opportunity of observing them. They have a fair amount of work to do at the pre sent time in the way of establishing batteries, mak ing fascines, &c., in which latter occupation they may daily be seen busily engaged in a field by the road from Gravenstein hither—in working jackets, their arms piled and their helmets hung upon the points of their bayonets. I should think that the inappropriateness of these Prussian helmets for campaigning—however well they may be consi dered to look in quarters—must by this time have been discovered ; also the inconvenience of allow. ing the men no bayonet-sheaths, in consequence of which they are obliged to carry their bayonets constantly fixed, certainly an undesirable necessity, increasing the soldier's labour in getting rid of rust from his arms, and in other respects objectionable. You pass carts in these narrow roads, containing sick or wearied men or soldiers, escorting provi sions, with the muskets laid in the carts, or sloped on the shoulder, and bayonets sticking out in all directions, like a chevaux-de frise, and in riding along the roads where many troops with convoys are moving about it requires constant attention to avoid accident. As regards the sanitary state of the army, I have no positive., statistics, but I learn, on good medical authority, that the percentage of sick is considerably higher than it was said to be a short time ago. This was to be expected. Expo • sure, bad and crowded quarters, lack cf opportuni. tics of attending to personal cleanliness, might be borne without much ill Effict for a short time, but must tell in the long ran, The Indian Telegraph Cable. Oa the Mekran coast, about 250 miles west of Xurrachee, the peninsula of Ras Noa is joined to the mainland by a narrow sandy isthmus, on which is Gwadar, a wretched town of mat-and-mud•built houses, inhabited chiefly by Beloochees, but subject to the Imaum of Muscat, who is represented by an Arab governor and guard. To the north of Gwadar the soft friable sandstone, the prevailing formation along the coast, increases in height and irregularity, the mountain ridges taking every conceivable form of pinnacle and buttress until they appear like a series of vast ruined castles and cathedrals. To the west extends a circular bay, some nine or ten miles across, with a regular sandy bottom, admirably fOapted far receiving a submarine cable, and here commences the first section of the Indian cable, the land line eastward to Kurrachee being already com pleted and the telegraph-office in full operation, to the great marvel of the natives as well as of the chiefs, who came down to G wadur with their re tainers as far from the interior as the neighbour , hood of Herat. On the evening of the 4th of February all the steamers and cables belonging to the section (which had met at the rendezvous some days previously, with a punctuality auguring well for the future success of the expedition), having landed the heavy shore cable, started westward for Mussendom. The Victoria had been previously stationed on the course, some miles out at sea, to mark the first point where the cable might have otherwise run some danger of being leid upon an unsuitable bottom. The Coromandel, with Col. Stewart, R.E., on board, piloted the course ; following her, the Zenobia towed the Kirkham, Sir Chas. Bright and his staff laying and testing the cable from her at the rate of about five miles an hour. At noon on the sth, 75 miles were laid, and at half-past 10 on the morning of the following day, having finished the 187 miles on board the Kirkham, the squadron came to anchor in Ist 25 19 N, long 59 E, off Ras Mundanny, a spit of low swampy land between Ras Tank and ilas Zegin. On the afternoon of the 7th, having joined the end to the cßbie on board the Marian Moore, the ships stnited again, the Kirkham returning to Bom bay in tow of the Semiramis. At 9 30 a,m. on the sth the ships anchored off Ras Jask, at the entrance to the Gulf, 268 miles being laid, and waited until the evening, so as to make the Arabian coast on the following morning. Shortly after midday on the 9Lh, 357 miles hav• ing been laid, the Marian Moore anchored near the landing place at Molcolm's Inlet, a sandy inlet 10 miles in length, surrounded by steep and sterile mountains, and about 14 miles from Cape Mussen dom, which gives its name indefinitely to the adja cent land. The shore-end was landed on the 13th, the in terim being occupied in Lrectiug a short length of land line and fitting up tents and accommodation for the operators. On the 14th the Marian Moore, with Messrs. Laws, Webb, Alexander, Lambert, and other engineers and electricians assisting in the work, started for Bombay, in tow of the Zenobia, to prepare and bring up the Tweed and Assaye, which arrived there with an aggregate of 730 miles of the cable on Feb. 6 and 13 respectively. So far nothing could have been more successful, the cs.,b.e when laid being in very far higher elec trical condition than any other line yet submerged, and having been laid without the smallest draw back or embarrassment either mechanical or elec trical. If the other arrangements proceed with equal re- gnlarity, we may shortly look for the completion of the gio-Indian Telegraph, though it is probable that some little time may intervene between the TIIE SUM LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1864. completion of the cable in the Persian Gulf and the establishment of the land lines in Mesopotamia and Persia on such a footing as to admit of the lines being opened to the public for the regular carriage of messages. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, TENDRING HUNDRED. The directors of this company state in their report that the line from the Hythe to Wivenhoe continues to be worked under the arrangement with the Great Eastern Railway Company, and that the results are satisfactory, although they afford no measure of the success which will be attained, as regards this portion of the undertaking, when the lines in connection with it are completed. The electric telegraph is now in operation along this part of the line. Notices have been given to all the landowners and occupiers on the branch line to St. Botolph's, Colchester, of their land and other property being required for the pur poses of the company, and negotiations for the purchase are now pending. The directors regret that difficulties have hitherto prevented actual progress in the construction of this branch ; but they confidently expect that it will be open for traffic by the end of the summer, when all that has been said of its value will be fully realised. The accounts show that £24,450 had been received, and £24,385 expended, leaving a balance of £65. The report of the directors on the extension to Walton on -the-Naze stated that the capital already subscribed is £26,020, exclusive of the amount (E 25,030) to be subscribed by the Great Eastern Railway Company, and, satisfactory as the local subscription may be thought, the directors hope that they may yet see included in the list the names of many other landowners and men of influence connected with Col chester and the district. The directors have caused certain clauses to be introduced into the bill now before Parliament, with the object of insuring the construction of a quarter of a mile of railway at Wivenhoe, which will be required and jointly used by this company and the Wivenhoe and Bright lingsea Railway Company, and providing, in effect, that in default of the work being completed by that company at a fixed date powers for that purpose may be conferred upon this company, to be exercised at the expense of the Wiven hoe and Brightlingsea Company. The latter company have presented a petition against the clause referred to, and com munications are now pending between the two companies. The receipts amounted to £2,059, and the expenses to £1,565, leaving a balance of £493. Mr P. Bruff, the engineer, states in his report that the extension to Weeley and Walton is of paramount importance to the well-being not only of the company, but to the town of Colchester and the important district to be traversed by the line. The line has been staked, working plans and sections prepared, and landowners' notices served at the most important parts be tween Wivenhoe and Kirby-cross (in the immediate vicinity at Walton), whence an improved line is to be adopted to the seaside terminus. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN. SIIIRE. The total expenses of this company's railways, including rents, tolls, duty, &c., hem January 1, to March 13, amounted to £63,561, as against £65,289 for the correspond ing period of 1863. The proportion of the South Junction receipts accruing to this company from January 1 to March 13 amounted to £6,406, as against £5 951 for the correspond ing period of 1563, and the expenses to £3,276, as against £2,591, progress. The gross receipts from the society's estate in 1863 had amounted to £2,448 5s 6d, and the expenditure to £917 is 4d, leaving a balance of £1,531 4s 2d ; out of which the directors recommend that a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum should be paid on each £5O share. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report and accounts. Major APLEAY, in secondir.g the motion, spoke of the great number of respectable tradesmen and artisans of Caithness and the surrounding villages assembled on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of the eastern breakwater, and of the extreme good humour and good order which prevailed on that occasion. The motion was agreed to, and the retiring direc tors, the Earl of Caithness and Mr. Loch, and the retiring auditor, Mr. W. Miller, were re-elected. A communication was read from Messrs. Steven son, the engineers, to the effect that there had now been deposited in the lino of the breakwater 3,138 tons of stones, that the contractors had sent to the ground a large quantity of plant and timber for staging, and another cargo was now on its way, and that other punt was being proceeded with, and would shortly be sent to the works; so that they hoped soon to report that the works had been fully organised. A vote of thanks was then accorded to the chair man, and the meeting separated. policeman came up, and gave him into custody, The bag was found near where the prisoner was taken. The jury found the prisoner guilty. Lockyer, the prison officer, put in 12 previous convictions against the prisoner, ranging from Oct., 1856, to Jan., 1864. The Assistant Judge sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude for lour years. Geo. Farmer, 62, was indicted for fraudulently obtaining by false pretences, from E , ,an Evans, the sum of ss. There were many other indictments of a similar nature against him. He pleaded guilty. Lockyer, the prison officer, said the prisoner had already boon sentenced to four years' penal servitude for obtaining money by false pretences, representing himself to be sent by the commissioners of sewers to examine the drainage of houses, and thus obtaining admission he exacted money from the inhabitants. ThA Assistant Judge sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude for six years. (Before Mr. Payne.) 'William Ford, 25, hawker, was indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Frederick Spong, and stealing therein six coats, two waistcoats, and other articles, the property of the said Frederick Spong. The prosecutor is a coachman in the employ of Sir Fre derick Halliday, and on the night of the 2d of March, be tween seven and eight o'clock, he returned home to Por chester mews, and f3und the stable door open, the lock having been forced. He then examined Ihe stable, and there f ulna a bundle, which, on opening, contained six coats, two waistcoats, a pair of trousers, a dress, and other property, worth about £l2, which he had left in a chest o drawers in a room over the stable, and soon after he saw the prisoner run out. He pursued him, calling out " Stop thief," and a person named Charles James, a stableman, tried to stop him, who received from the prisoner a severe blow on the eye with his fist. He continued to follow him and never lost sight of him until he was stopped and given into custody, On going to the stable-door and comparing the marks where it had been forced open with a jemmy found in Leinster-gardens, and where, no doubt, it had been thrown by the prisoner during his flight, it was found they exactly corresponded. Mr. Collins addressed the jury, who found the prisoner guilty. ~ Mr. Payne sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for 18 calendar months. Richard Curtis, 29, and William Alfred Clarke, 29, both privates in the Marines, stationed at Wcolwieh, were in dicted for stealing a watchguard chain and silver watch, value £6 10s,, the property of Philip Purcell, in a dwelling house, From the evidence of Mr, James Brennan, inspector of the F division of police, it appeared that at about half-past nine o'clock on the night of the Bth of March, from infor mation he received, he went to the Seven Dials, and saw the prisoners enter the Grapes public-house there. After being there for a few minutes Clarke came cut, and went I in company with another man to Little St. Andrew-street, to which place he followed them. He there saw Clarke show this man a watch and chain, upon which he (the witness), went up to the place and stood near enough to hear him ask the man to buy it for £3. The man asked him to let him look at it, and he (witness) also made a similar recptest. Clarke said it was all right, but after some difficulty the in spector got the watch and chain from him. He asked him where he got it, and he said in Union-street, Plymouth, six six weeks before, when he was paid off from his ship. He was asked for his pass, and he said his mate had it. He had directed Cut tie, who hart came out of the public-house, to be taken to the station-house, and afterwards Clarke was taken there, both being drunk at the time. He there told them both that he should charge them with being deserters, and also with having the watch and chain in their possession and not giving a satisfactory account how they became possessed of it. Clarke said he was six weeks on furlough, I and Curtis said he had leave on that afternoon, and that his time would be up on the following morning. Clarke gave the name of Smith, but Curtis gave his right name. The prosecutor, Philip Purcell, was then called, and he said he was a sergeant of Marines at Woolwich, and be longed to the same company as the two prisoners. He had known them for about nine months, but he could not tell how long they had been in the corps. They were quartered in a room opposite to the room he occupied, toge ther with 16 other men. On Saturday night, sth March, he remembered going into their room, and he remained there for about five ho'nutes. He was certain that he saw his watch at about twelve o'clock that night. The next morning his watch wat missed, and Clarke went to his room to take a cap and a key, which he said had been left in his room, but he said nothing to him about a watch, Some other evidence,having been given, Mr, Wharton addressed the jury on behalf of Clarke, cent nding that there was no proof that he had stolen the watch, and that Curtis had given it to him, stating that it was found on his bed. The jury found both prisoners guilty, but recommended Curtis to mercy on the ground that he had spoken the truth as regarded his term of leave. Mr. Payne sentenced Curtis to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for 8 months, and Clarke for 12 months. William Regan, who, with his two brothers, was fried and convicted last session of an assault on policeman 167 F, was brought up and placed at the bar. It will be remembered that the two other prisoners were, on their conviction, fined each in the s An of £5, and had to enter into recognisances in the sum of £2O to keep the peace for 12 months ; but the other prisoner, William Regan, being insolent in his manner, was ordered to be imprisoned for four months, and to pay a fine of £5. To-day Mr. Payne ordered him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for 14 days (which will expire on Thursday), to pay a fine of £lO, and to enter into his own recognisances in the sum of £2O to keep the peace for 12 months. The reason of this ectra fine, coupled with the circumstance above alluded to, was that there was a second indictment against Wm. Regan for inflicting actual bodily harm on Police constable Hargreaves whilst in the execution of his duty. ' At this session there are an unusual number of prisoners ' committed for assaults on the police, and a special day has been named when those offences will be disposed of. SCINDE. The traffic returns on this company's railway, 105 miles in length, for the week ending 17th January last amounted for passengers, parcels, &c., to £305; for merchandise, cattle, &c., to £l,B4o—total, £2,l 15, or £2O 8s 8d per mile; against £1,581, or £l7 18s 5d per mile for the corresponding week of 1863, and £751, or £7 3s per mile in 19,62. ATLANTIC TELEGRAPII. It appears that the scientific committee appointed to consider the best form of cable for submersion between Europe and America have recommended the one prepared by Messrs. Glass, Elliot, and Co., No. 46. The conductor consists of a copper strand of seven wires (six laid round one), each wire gauging 0144 of an inch, and the centre strand 0.444 of an inch, and weighing 3001 b per nautical mile, embedded for solidity in Chatterton's compound. The conductor of the old cable of 1858 consisted of six wires laid round one, being about half the gauge of the new one, and weighing only 1071 b per nautical mile. The insulator of the new cable is to consist of gutta percha, in four layers, between each of which is to be a thin layer of Chatterton's compound, making a diameter of the core of 0.164 of an inch, weighing 4001 b per nautical mile. The insulator of the old cable was formed of three layers, and weighed 2611 b per nautical mile. The external protection of the new cable is in two parts—first, the core is surrounded with a padding of soft jute yarn, saturated with a preservative mixture ; next this padding is the pro tective covering, which consists of ten solid wires of the gauge 0.095 of an inch, drawn from homogeneous iron, each wire being surrounded separately with five strands of Manilla yarn. The whole of the ten strands thus formed of the hemp and iron are to be laid spirally round the padded core. The external protection of the old cable con sisted of 18 strands of charcoal iron wire (each strand was composed of seven thin wires), laid spirally round the core, which latter was previously padded with hemp saturated with a tar mixture, Each wire strand was of No. 14 gauge, and entirely unprotected from the action of the sea water. The weight of the new cable is to be 35 . 1ewt per nautical mile, while that of the old one was 20cwt. The breaking stain of the new cable 71 tons, and of the old cable 31 tons. The strength of the new cable is to be equal to 4.61 times its own vertical weight in the deepest water (2,400 fathoms), while that of the old cable was only 2'05 times the strength requisite for the deepest water, The scientific committee recommend various precautions to be adopted for testing the core, the joints, and other parts of the cable during its manufacture and when completed, so as to insure, if pos sible, the utmost success. British Fisheries S ociety. The annual general meeting in pursuance of the Act 20 and 21 Vic., C. 93, was held yesterday, at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's. Mr. George Loch occupied the chair, and was supported by Sir Graham Montgomery, M.P., M ljor M'Leay, Capt. Tudor, R.N., and others. The report, which was read by Mr. Macleod of Macleod (the secretary), stated that the directors, finding that the cost of the harbour works in Wick Bay would exceed the amount they originally contemplated, had resolved to apply for an additional loan, and had accord ingly addressed communications to the Board of Trade and to the Public Works Loan Commissioners. The Board of Trade formally approved of the fur ther loan of £20,000, in addition to the sum of £60,000 already applied for. The reply of the Loan Commissioners was es fol'ows : South Sea House, June 19, 1863. Sirs,—l am directed to inform you that this board hav ing had under consideration the application of the British Fisheries Society for a loan of £30,000 under the Harbours and Passing Tolls, &c.. Act, 1861, for the purpose of cer tain harbour works in the Bay of Wick, have resolved so far as regards £60,000 of that sum to grant a loan to that extent in aid of the expense of constructing the eastern breakwater, such loan to be advanced as follows :—£20,000 in 1864, £ AOOO in 1865, and £lO,OOO in 1866, by such in stalments and at such times as may be arranged between this board's secretary and the British Fisheries Society, the first advance to be subject to the production of evidence to the satisfaction of this board of the expenditure out of the funds of the society of £40,000 upon the works, and the sub sequent advances subject to the production of similar evi dence of the expenditure of the preceding advance ; each in stalment to be secured by a mortgage of the harbour re venues, and all tolls and other income derivable from the undertaking, and to be repayable by 45 annual instalments, the first to be paid at the expiration of the fifth year from the date of each advance, interest at 31 per cent. to be paid annually on the principal sums from time to time remaining unpaid. The duo application of such advance is to be secured by a bond to her Majesty from the directors of the society, or the major part of them. lam further to ac quaint you that the consideration of the application, so far as relates to the sum of £20,000 required for the transverse breakwater, is postponed, until the eastern breakwater and works shall have been completed, or until the plans for such transverse breakwater shall have been approved by the proper authorities, and submitted to this board. On the receipt of the letters from the Board of Trade and the commissioners, immediate directions had been given for entering into arrangements with the contractor, and Mr. Hunter having withdrawn his tender, that of Messrs. Macdonald, of Glasgow, had been finally accepted ; the snm agreed upon for the various works being .£105,70.1. No time had been lost in preparing the contract, and it being understood that the inhabitants of Wick and Pul teney-town were desirous of showing their interest in the construction of these works, it was resolved that there should be a ceremony on the occasion of laying the first stone of the eastern breakwater. Tae necessary arrangements were made by the contractor, and on the Ist of October the first stone was laid by the Countess of Caithness, in presence of a deputation from the board of directors and a large assemblage of persons, an imposing pro cession of trades with banners, proving (if any proof were wanting) how much alive the industrious com munity of Caithness were to the importance of the undertaking, and the benefits it would confer upon them. The contractor hed since that time been en gaged in the arrangements necessary for carrying on the works with vigour. A number of men were em ployed, and the directors hoped that during the ensuing summer he would be enabled to make good MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—March 21, The March adjourned general sessions of the peace for the county of ISliddlesex commenced this morning at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell•green, before Mr Bodkin, As sistant-Judge, End a bench of magistrates. The calendar contains the names of 122 prisoners com mitted for trial, of whom IC4 were indicted for felony, and 18 for misdemeanor. The Grand Juy having been sworn, The Assistant• Judge briefly addressed them on the na• ture of their duties. Jane Element, 16, was indicted for abandoning a female child under the age of two years, whereby the life of such child was endangered ; there was a second count charg ing her with unlawfully exposing a child under the age of two years, whereby the health of such child was endangered. Mr. Cooper, who appeared for the prosecution, said the charge against the young woman at the bar was founded on the 24th and 25th Viet., c. 27, which enacted, "That who soever shall unlawfully abandon or expose any child being under the age of two years, whereby the life of such child should be endangered, or the health of such child shall have been or shall likely be permanently injured, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable at the dixretion of the Court to be kept in penal ser vitude for the term of three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour. This was one of those melancholy cases which often came before them, and it was to be regretted that the prisoner's place was not supplied by her seducer; but that was a qu2sticn with which they had nothing to do, and if the case was made out it would bo the duty of the jury to find her guilty, leaving her then in the hands of the presid ing judge, who always tempered justice with mercy. He should call the witnesses, and then leave the case for the considerati-n of the jury. Robert Fry said ho lived at No. 39, Goodge-street, Totten ham-court-road, with his aunt, Mrs. Baker. On the 14th February, at abcut half- pabt 12 o'clock at night, he heard a noise in the bask yard, and it appeared as if something heavy had fallen In consequence of hearing that noise he went out to see vhat it was, and in a sink in the middle of the 3 and he fount a child. The sink - was in the middle of the yard, and was used to let off the water. Seeing this he went immediately for the police. The prisoner lived with her father at the next house. The wall separating the two houses was betwaen 9 and 10 feet in height. Edmund Gall, police 'constable 25 E, said early on the morning of Sunday, the 14th of February, he was called by the last witness t) the house No, 39, Goodge-street, and in the centre of tht yard he found a new born child, quite naked and screaming. He took it to Middlesex Hospital, where it was attended to, and in about half an hour after wards he returntd to Goodge-street. He knocked at the door of the next house, having observed marks of blood on the wall. He went to the third floor hick room in that house, which was opened by the prisoner's father. lie asked him if there was any one in the house sick, and he replied that there was nct that he knew of. The witness then went into the front room on the same floor, where he found the prisoner sitting cn a sofa with her clothes on. He asked her what was the water with her, but sho made no answer. The father then said to her, " Jenny, whatever you say, speak the truth." Police-sergeant John William Ingerson, 6 E, said he went to the prisoner's house with the last witness, and on going into the yard belonging to Mrs. Baker ho saw blood. lie afterwards went .nto the prisoner's house, and on looking out of a window saw marks of blood about. lie saw the prisoner sitting on a sofa, and he told her he should charge her with attempting to destroy the life of her child. She then said she had delivered herself in the watercloset, and that she had thrown the child over the wall into the adjoin ing premises. Mr. George Ross, divisional surgeon to the E division of police, said he was galled on the morning of the 14th of February, about five o'clock, to No. 40, Goodge-street, and there found the prisoner sitting on a sofa in a very excited state. He asked her if she had ben recently delivered, and she said she had at helf-past 12 o'clock. Two days after wards the child was taken to the prisoner. He had attended her ever since, The ctild was only injured by a slight bruise on the forehead. Mr. Besley addressed the jury, who found the prisoner guilty, but recommended her to mercy on account of her tender years. The Assistant-Judge directed that the prisoner should be liberated on bail, and hi brought up again next sessions. John Cotter, 15, and William Thornton, 16, were indicted for stealing a copper scoop, the property of Benjamin Hart. Thornton pleaded guffly,Cotter was found guilty by the jury. Police-constable 207 11 said that Cotter was the associate of thieves, and Thornton was a teacher of them. If they did not do what he told them he beat them. The Assistant Judge sentenced Cotter to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two months, and then to be sent to the Cornwall training ship for three years. With regard to Thornton he would be kept in penal servitude for three years, not merely because he was a thief, but because he was a trainer of thieves. George Cooper, 44, was indicted for stealing seven live tame fowls, the property of Enoch Dukes, and assaulting John Carter, constable of the metropolitan police fere e,with intent to prevent his lawful apprehension. The prisoner pleaded guilty. The prisoner was stopped by the constable Carter with a quantity of fowls in his possession, and not giving a satis factory account of them he sai he sheuld take him into custody. Upon this the prisoner struck him a violent blow on the head with a plasterer's hammer, which most seri ously injured him, and it was nothing less than a miracle that the officer survived the injuries he received. He had been ever since, and was sti.l, unfit for duty. A previous conviction of 12 months' imprisonment was put in against him, which sentence was passed upon him at the Central Criminal Court in Sept-, 1852, for endeavouring to obtain admission to the city police force by means of a false character. The prisoner said he was Liven to the commission of his present offence through starvation, being unable to obtain employment for the support of his wife and family. The Assistant Judge sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude for three years. John Marchant, 17, was indicted for stealing 13 silver spoons, value £7, the property of William Matthtws. He pleaded guilty. The prisoner was in the employ of Mr. Matthews, chemist, 4, Wigtnore-str,:et, as porter, and on March 1 he left with out giving notice. On that morning he was admitted to the house by Sarah Reeves, the servant, at half-past 7 o'clock, and in a quarter of an hour after he was gone the spoons were missed from the back dining room, He was after wards found in custody for another offence, but was detained on this charge. Police-constable 76 D proved a previous conviction against the prisoner for burglary at the Central Criminal Court on the 24th of November, 1862, there being then a previous conviction against him. At the time of the rob bery in 1862 the prisoner and another boy went to Margate, where they hired two horses and rode them to Gravesend, where they were apprehended on suspicion of stealing these horses. At the time of their apprehension at Gravesend by Sergeant White, 16 D, on each of the prisoners was found a brace of pistols leaded with bullets, and with property the result of another burglary at Mitcham, in Surrey, for which they were not prosecuted. When the prisoner was apprehended on this charge he had just been discharged from Marylebone Police-court on a charge of parsing a bad five-shilling- piece. The Assistant Judge sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude for four years. Edward Baptist Noel, 25, baker , was i ndicted for embez zling various sums of money receiv ed b y him for and on ac count of Geo. Wright, his master. He pleaded g u ilt y , The prosecutor is a dairyman, and the pris oner was i n his service and received the money for milk supplied to the customers, which he appropriated to his own use. The Assistant Judge sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for twelve months. "Wm. Pearce, 41, was indicted for stealing a leather bag, containing a handkerchief, a comb, a brush, a pair of gloves, and oLher articles, the property of Eliza Collett, from her person. On the sth of March, at about a quarter-past eight at night, the prosecutrix was walkin.z . in Russell-square, hav ing a leather bag on her arm, Suddenly a man sprang out from some place behind her, and seized the bag with such violence that the handle of it was broken, and he ran away with it. She screamed out and followed him, calling out " Stop thief." He was afterwards stopped by a wan named Wm. Bellew, a gasfitter, who struggled with him and got his clothes torn in doing so, He, however, held him until a Atrocious Murder at Agar-town, Yesterday afternoon, Dr. Lankester, coroner for Central Middlesex, resumed an adjourned inquest at the Elephant and Castle, King's-road, Camden-town, on the body of a female unknown, discovered floating in the Regent's Canal on the morning of the 16th of March, with her skull frac tured in such a manner as to leave no doubt that she had been cruelly murdered. Dr. Saul, senior surgeon of St. Pancras Infirmary, stated that he first saw the deceased on the 16th inst. The body was much decomposed, and had apparently been about three weeks in the water. On examining the head he found a lacerated wound, two or three inches in length, on the right temple, extending from immediately above the right ear upwards and forwards, dividing the upper port of the cartilage of the right ear and the temporal muscle, fractur ing the skull and penetrating through the membranes into the substance of the brain. On comparison found the right temporal muscle a much deeper red colour than the left one. This extravasation of blood established the fact that the wounds had been inflicted before death. There was a cut on the left side of the upper lip, extending to the lower lip, and superficial wounds on the left shoulder and elbow, and also a scratch on the right side of the nose. Deceased has a red handkerchief tied round her neck, but there were no marks of constriction. The brain was much ccnjested. The cause of death was the fracture of the skull, and he believed the fracture to have been produced by a blow from behind. From the evidence of Inspecto. Frazer, of the S division, Thomas Welch, who first discovered the body, and others, it appeared that when deceased was found in the water her clothes appeared to have been torn off, she had no gown, bonnet, or shawl, and her appearance indicated that she had been engaged in a fearful struggle. Inspector Frazer stated that deceased was first supposed to be the body of a woman known as " Fat Ann," but that woman was now in the workhouse. A female named Ann Poulter had been missing since the 20th February from White Lion-street, and the body of deceased had been ex humed, but was too decomposed to be identified. Ann Paul ter's mother having stated that her daughter had her ear pierced for earrings, Dr. Saul, who was present at the ex humation, examined the ears minutely, and could detect no evidence of their having been pierced. Inspector Fraser, in answer to a question, stated that every endeavour had been made by the police to get the body identified but without effect. The coroner remarked that there could not bo the shadow of a doubt but that this poor woman had been brutally mur dered. The evidence of the extravasated blood proved that the wounds were inflicted before deceased came into the water; and it was to be hoped that the police would be able to unravel the mystery and find out the guilty party or parties. With that object he trusted that the press would give publicity to the appearance of deceased, as well as the description of her clothes, which might probably give some clue to deceased's identity. The description of deceased is--height, sft. sin. ; hair, dark brown, plain in front and plaited behind ; round face, and apparently about 30 years of age. The only articles of clothing on her were a rough, grey woollen jacket, the back being much torn; a red stuff handkerchief round the neck, ribbed woollen mittens, of a chocolate colour, on each arm, stockings grey and white, striped transversely, boots with elastic sides, much worn; one cotton garter, marked at one end " T.R.," and the figvre "2," with red cotton in capital letters ; plain white drawers and plain chemise ; stays, old, with brass clasps in front and laced behind, and a bit of crimson or pink ribbon round the stays. The coroner said, with a view of enabling the police to make every further possible inquiry, he proposed to adjourn the inquest till that day three weeks, the 11th of April, and it was adjourned accordingly. 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The chief cause of this comparative indifference is to be sought, no doubt, in the conflagration which has been kindled nearer home ; but, besides the diversion created by the Danish war, the very prolongation of the strife be tween Federals and Confederates has tended to ex. haust the powers of public attention. After a three years' strain, interest naturally begins to flag, and the indecisiveness hitherto characteristic of the American War is of itself enough to discourage any speculation on Its end. Yet the importance of this great struggle has in no degree declined. Remote and obscure as the issue may be, it ie an issue fraught with most momentous consequences. We cannot conjecture the results, but we know that they must affect the destinies of millions. If any point of the case is clearer than it was two years ago, it is this—that the contest will be a long one, and that the end is es yet not so much as foreshadowed. To be persuaded of this fact we need only take a general review of the position and prospects of the contending forces as represented in the latest reports from the scenes of war. On behalf of the North it may be alleged with truth not only that its resolu tion is unabated, but that the progress of its arms is in some sense distinc.ly perceptible. Perhaps, upon the whole, the glories of last year's campaigns were not unequally divided, but it is impossible to overlook the fact that, with one important excep tion, there has been a gradual advance of the Northern armies into the territories of the Confederacy. The scene of war in the South-West has been changed from Kentucky to Tennessee, and from Tennessee to Alabama and Georgia. Federal troops are incessantly pushing from North to South, and from West to East. The successive battles carry us from Nashville and Morfreesborough to Chatta- nooga and Dalton, while the latest advices even men tion Athanta as the mark of a Federal expedition. Then the Mississippi has been seized,—that is to say, not New Orleans alone, but the other strong places on the stream are in the hands of the Union ists. Add to this that Texas and Florida have been invaded and Mobile threatened, and we shall see that the present position of the Federal armies can be represented as very different from their position two years or even twelvemonths, since. Ou the other hand, if we examine these results more closely, and estimate them with greater care, we shall be disposed to make large deductions from their weight. They are gratifying to the feelings of the North, and they enable Mr. Seward to expatiate with complacency in his diplomatic circulars on the übiquitous presence of the Union flag. Bat they have effected very little towards the subjugation of the South or the termi nation of the war. If Tennessee and Louisiana represent States " recovered" by the Federal Go vernment, it is obvious that the " recovery" of the entire Confederacy will produce nothing resembling a restoration of the Union. These States are only held by military force, and so precarious, indeed, us well as partial is the tenure that we may any day hoar of their changing hands once more. Knoxville is constantly threatened by the Confederates, and may at any moment be reoccupied. The invasion of Georgia is as yet only projected,and in so far as it was attempted it failed. Of the two events it seems as likely that Johnston should drive the Federals from Chattanooga as that the Federals should drive him from Dalton. The movement upon Mobile was a mere feint ; the expedition to Florida, a disaster. The Mississippi, again, though wrested in some sort from Southern hands, is as little available as before for Northern commerce, and the capture of Vie,ks burg has been a barren success. Charleston has resisted a siege in which it is said that enough money has been spent to purchase the entire State of South Carolina. We observed, too, that even to this equivocal progress of the Federal arms there was an exception, and that exception is to be found in the most important scene of the whole war. Never from the first battle of Bull Run to the pre sent time have the Northern forces been able to make the least impression upon the defences of Vir ginia. Every successive " Army of the Potomac" has either been defeated in the field or has been victorious only in repelling an aggressive advance of the enemy. Richmond is safer than 'Washing ton ; nor must we omit to mention in this compa rison of positions that if the Federals are now threat ening the far South, the Confederates in their turn are ;threatening regions hitherto untouched in the North. General Thomas, as we already know, did not succeed in penetrating into Georgia, but Gen. Lee and his colleagues may be more successful in advancing into Pennsylvania or Ohio. IVe col lect, indeed, from this general review that the chances of the approaching campaigns are almost as promising for one side as for the other, nor ball we find the inclination of the balance much moo decided if we compare the resources in men and materials which the belligerents may respectively be presumed to possess. The preponderance of the North in numerical strength is in a great degree imaginary. The enormous levies decreed by Presi dent Lincoln are but very partially raised, and it is doubted if more than 100,000 men can be added to the Federal armies for the campaign of 1864. Unless the men whose time of service is just ex piring can be induced to re enlist, this reinforce ment would but substitute raw trookna for veterans; but it is anticipated that a consideeeble .pro portion of the old soldiers may be retained, and this element may have its effect upon thecon.ree of the war. Three years of fighting must neces sarily raise the quality of an army, nor is it to be supposed that such a war can go on for ever with out producing a General. Altogether the armies of the North may probably be expected to be more efficient than ever, while the possible redu.atiou in their numbers may have the double advantage of discouraging distant expeditions and facilitating the operations of the Generals in command. But when we have admitted all this as undoubtedly encouraging in the prospects of the North we shall find ourselves compelled to admit as much or more in favour of the South. It is perfectly clear that at the present moment the two great armies of the South are at least a match for the two great armies of the North. General Grant's forces can achieve no success against those of General Johnston, for the attempt has just been made, and has failed. As to General Meade, he waits upon General Lee, and is content if he can bar the road to 'Washington. Whether he will be equally successful in protecting Ohio and Pennsylvania is what remains to be seen. But while the balance of general resources is thus evenly poised, the South remains in full possession of those important advantages which its position imparted from the beginning. It is fighting a de fensive war for its very existence, and is, therefore, victorious 60 long as it is not subdued. Every in decisive campaign is a defeat for the North. The Confederates need no triumph] in the field, pro vided they can prevent the Federals from attaining them. In fact, the Confederates hove had three years of suecess, for during those three years they have maintained that political independence which they took arms to assert. They have been at war all the time, it is true, but they have been independent still, while the North has failed to extinguish the Secession and to restore the Union. The same superiority of position will be friend the Confederates in future. They can otily fail by exhaustion ; the Federals may fail by weari ness. The former have only to stand in defence of their homes till they can stand no longer; the lat ter have to maintain by incessant efforts the impetus of an aggressive and most costly war. Hitherto the people of the North have not suffered either from conscription or taxation, but if the war is to be continued the time for those trials must come, and it seems at least as probable that they may tire of the struggle as that the people of the South may become unable to prolong it. It will be strange if in all the excitement of a Presidential Election a peace party should not some day appear, and in this contingency lies a great chance for the South. Such is the position of American affairs at the present time. As far as the spring campaign has gone its results are decidedly, though not decisively, in favour of the South ; but so little can be discerned of any end to the war that the Federals themselves have ceased to predict it. It is no longer spoken of as an affair of "90 days." What it is, or what it will become, nobody can divine ; but the Amerie cans must at any rate have learnt by this time that they have nothing to fear from the intervention of Europe, and that the results of the struggle, what ever they may prove, will have been worked out exclusively by themselves. DAILY NEWS.—The foundation of an empire is a difficult enterprise even when the sword has most completely done its work. This the Archduke Maxi milian now finds to his inconvenience. His Imperial Highness had much to arrange at Paris, and left much unarranged when he departed. One of his chief difficulties was connected with the furnishing of his Imperial treasury. Not that money was not forthcoming in abundance. The eminent financiers of that capital were by no means unwilling to help him ; on the contrary, they wanted to do too much for him. It is well known that they are men of ample means and the grandest conceptions. The Emperor designate could have had any amount of money he required, if he had been able to appreciate the noble projects unfolded before him. The banker princes of Paris are not vulgar money lenders, and the operation they were ready to undertake for the Archduke was nothing less than the complete finan cial organisation and occupation of the new empire. A National Bank which they were eager to found, a paper currency which they would supply and re gulate, formed, in connection with proposals for an export duty on the precious metals, the conditions, and, as it ultimately proved, the tole conditions, under which they would tOueh the required loan. Ile Archduke had the good sense to see how foolish it would be to impose such a burden on Mexico, and refused to sell his new subjects before he had his cmpire in possession. Thus the grand "combine* 'ions" of wl.ieh we have heard sc.' much of late are dissolved, and the Archduke will go to Mexico with a small num of money in hand, trus,`ing to his g ood fortune to be able to make better tern's in the 00' tal of his new empire than the magnificent ideas of Parisian financiers permitted him to do on this side of the Atlantis. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. (From the Illustrated London Kews.) The will of the Right Hon. Charles Viscount Midleton in Ireland, and Baron Brodrick in England, late of Pepper Harrow, Surrey ; Cahirmone, Ireland ; and. Eaton-place , Belgravia, was proved in her Majesty's Court of Probate, London, by Viscountess Midleton, and the nephews, the Hon. and Rev. Charles Brodrick Bernard, rector of 1' brogan, Cork ; and John W. Scott, Esq., of Salem -plac e r Dublin. Tine pet senalty was sworn under £150,000. The will is signed " Midleton," and bears date December, 1861, and a codicil August, 1863. His lordship died in Decemlvs last, aged 72. His relict, the Viscouutess, has secured to her an annuity of £l,BOO, and is appointed residuary legs' tee for life of bothreal and personal estate. Liberal pro s ' ! " sions are made for his two daughters, who are also revere sionary residuary legatees. Legacies are left to his sister! and others of his family, and to servants ; to each of hi s nephews who are executors, £2OO ; and to the Church , Missionary Society, Salisbury-square, £5OO. His lordship was the eldest son of Archbishop Brodrick of Cashel. Th e first peer was Alan Brodrick, Speaker of the Irish 110115 C of Commons and Lord High Chancellor, 1715. The will of Arthur Saltmarshe, Esq., of Bill-kill, Berke , bearing date 1861, was proved in the London Court, under £300,000 personalty, the executors being Thos. Faulconer, Esq., of Westbourne-terrace, Hyde Park ; and W. S' Sandelands, Esq., of Fenchurch-street, to each of whom a legacy of £5OO is bequeathed. To his wife he leaves a aura of £20,000 and a life interest in the estates and _property. Tho estates upon her decease he has divided between his two nephews, Philip and Arthur, in certain prop ortions and the personal estate and landed property will also be divided amongst his said nephews and his nieces. Al l legacies to be paid free of duty. The will of John Malebyase Beckwith, Esq., formerly of the Mint, in the Tower of London, and late of Royal crescent, Notting-hill, was proved in the principal registeY by the lour executors and trustees therein appointed, namely —Mrs. Beckwith, the relict; - William Dickson and W. T. Snoswell, Esqrs , both of Notting .hill ; and L. C. Wyou) Esq., of St. John's-wood. The personalty was sworn under £60,000. The will was executed in 1858, and the testator died in January last. The legacies are numerous, and moll are reversionary on the decease of the relict, who takes a life interest in the bulk of the property. If the surplus residue will admit of it, the following charitable institutions are to receive a legacy of £lOO each : The Deaf and Dumb Asylum , Blind School, Cancer Hospital, Asylum for Idiots, Hospital . for Cutaneous Diseases (Blacidriars), and King's College Hospital. COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER—MARCH 19. We had a small show of wheat on offer at this market to-day, and late rates were supported. Wheat, white. 44s 50s Beans,Mazagan..2Bs : 325 red 40s 44s middle & small.32s 3 65 Barley Oats GLOUCESTER—AI/atm 19. There was a full supply of ,English wheat to-day from the tamers for which trade was firm, at about form er prices. Foreign wheat in limited demand, at the rates °f , last week. Malting barley rather dearer. Other sorts 01 . spring corn dull. NORTHAMPTON—MARca 19. White wheat, new, 3s to 44s ; new red, 37s to 41s; old. 37s to 45s per qr. Barley, new malting, 323 Jo 365-"' grinding. 25s to 30s per qr. Oats, 188 to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, 30s to 41e. Peas, 30a to 37s per qr. CHELMSFORD—MAncu 18. At this corn exchange to-day there was a fair show of, wheat, which was slightly improved in condition, but a dull sale, and last week's rates were maintained. Spoil corn unaltered. Wheat, old white 30s 47s new 44s 50s old red 34s 40s new 35s 42s Barley 25s 34s Chevalier 26s 378 Grinding 2os 29s Ma1t..... 61s 67s Chevalier . 64s 69s Oats 2os 28s Veas, Partridge 36s 39 White 30s 3 65 Boiling 3Bs 40 Dun 33s 3 65 Ditto new —s ---S Beans, Tick, ,1d 34s 395 , new --s ---' Harrow Ticks 3ss 40s new —s Mazagan ~,, 308 39 KIRKCALDY GRAIN—MA.ncn 19. We had a large quantity of oats, fair supplies of whea t, and moderate of barley. Sales at late quotations. Wheat. Barley. Cats. First....32s Od 26s Od I 15s 6LI Second .. 35s Od 27s Od Gd Third...37s Od 2Ss Od 17s 6d COAL MARKET. Prices of Coal per Ton at the close of the market. e. d. , e a• Byass's Baside West llartley 16 0 Wylam 17 0 Eden Main ...17 3 faritield Moor 14 6 Walls End. 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MORLEY—ANSIMLL.—On the 19th inst., at St. Ber ria drO , Kensington, William W. Morley, Esq., of Blec l ‘ b v - 54 4 to Maria, the eldest daughter of Richard Ansdellf A.R.A., of Kensington. dr olig RYDER—GRANT.—On the 19th inst., at Trinity ellroaff, Brompton, Granville Richard Ryder, Esq., of the it l6o Temple. to Sibylla Sophia, daughter of the late +" Ron. Sir Robert Grant. Deaths. 0 AcTox.—On the 20th inat., at Ventnor, LAP., Jas..- - e Esq., aged 26. W S ' EVANS.—On the 20th inst., at 3, Whitehall.garde l6 Evans, aged °O. j• ' JEFFREY.—On the 18th inst., at Stepney, Mr. 11. Je ff aged 56. Di be t4 LAMBERT.—On the 19th inat., suddenly, John 1-1 / 3, Westwood Lodge, St. John's-wood, e1P 5 ',',01 4 / PARRY.—On the 20th inst.. at The Elms, Ponder s John Parry, Esq., late of Ludgate-hill. fi Ol e° PICIGOTT.—On the 18th inst., at Guildford, Mr. Piggott, aged 75. r POwELL.—At Eaton Cottage, Knotty Ash, ne a ,,; pool, Daniel Powell, Esq., of Breck Hey, aged o ',„' TAYLER.—On the 19th inst. , at Brixton, C. 8., aged 82.